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What is the current growth in union membership?
What is the organizing process for a labor union to enter a nonunion company?
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What is the current growth in union membership?
As per the bls, there is a decline in the union membership had been declining in the US since 1954. But in 2007, the labor department reported the first increase in union memberships in 25 years and the largest increase since 1979 largely because of increase in the union membership in the service sector. For example West Coast states like California which is a hub of service sector, union membership is now at 16.7% compared with a national average of about 12.1%.
Composition of the Union membership has reversed and now 36% of public workers being represented by unions while private sector union density had plummeted to around 7%. "The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. However, that trend has since reversed. In 2009, the union density for private sector stood at 7.2%."
Union membership in 2011
"The union membership rate was 11.8 ...
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